Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 12:12:37 05/28/99
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On May 27, 1999 at 20:26:41, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On May 27, 1999 at 18:44:29, Eugene Nalimov wrote: > >>On May 27, 1999 at 18:20:17, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On May 27, 1999 at 10:06:47, Owen Lyne wrote: >>> >>>>I just downloaded crafty-16.8.tar.gz, but the main.c >>>>file includes only comments up to 16.7 - what's >>>>happening here? It compiles OK for me and introduces >>>>itself as 16.8, but what's the difference between 16.7 and >>>>16.8? >>>> >>>>Owen >>> >>>Sorry.. 16.7 had one serious bug in the eval function. I edited something >>>(using VI) on a sun workstation connected to my linux box, and the sun did >>>not quite display the file. A dd command (delete line) deleted the right line >>>on the screen, but Solaris was confused as to how the screen looked. And the >>>screen looked ok, but the wrong line was canned. >>> >>>16.8 fixed that... now to get it compiled... don't bother with 16.7, >>>although it plays reasonably, it has problems with white rooks and open >>>files as that code is hosed. >> >>Were it on Windows, you'd blamed MS in much less politely words :-)... I'll >>compile it and send to you in several minutes. >> >>Eugene > >Actually, as I have said before, NT is pretty decent. It is 95/98 that suck >with a dozen straws. :) > >and I can tell you horror stories about Solaris too, if interested. :) > >But there aren't many Solaris users so the topic is generally not very well >discussed... I am interested in hearing/reading those stories! If they are too long, or too off-topic, to be posted here please send them by e-mail! I am a Solaris user, and an exclusively Solaris user for about two years. I have not had any problems with Solaris, and all the strange behavoirs I have seen were hardware related and solved by changing something inside the computer. But definitely I am interested in any known problem of the operating system.
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